Shipping-receptacle



B. H. LEE.

l SHIPPING RECEPTACLE. APPucHlon HLED Nov. 3. 1919.

1,365,834, 1 6 patented Jan. 1s, 1921.

"ac X12 BBUW'NELL HALVDR LEE, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

SHIPPING-ascensore.

Speci'eation of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

Application filed November 3, L919. Serial No. 335,459.

To all/whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, BRoWNELL Hamon Linz;` a citizen of the` United States, residing at l t. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and Stateof Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Receptacles, of which the following is a Specifica tion.

This invention relates to improvements in shipping case structures and more particularly provides a structure, the walls of which are principally constructed of pulp board or other inexpensive material which can be replaced from time to time as the walls become worn or broken. More ar ticularly my invention provides a rigid skeleton frame having strong corner elements for protecting the corners of the receptacle against wear and becoming broken. A further object is to provide a structure which is inexpensive in construction and eficient in use.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this speclfication, Figure 1 is a plan of my invention portions thereof being broken away for the purpose of exposing the details of construction and Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section, the section being taken on the ne 2--2 of Fig. 1.

My invention provides a skeleton frame in which the sides, bottom and top of the structure are removabl placed. The re ceptacle in shape resemb esa parallelopiped. although its shape may be varied. The skeleton frame consists of upper and lower horizontally disposed bands A and B, to which are secured by soldering or other suit able means vertical corner pieces C which are similar in construction. The lower band B is turned inwardly to form a rectangular shelf D in the lower end of the skeleton frame upon which the floor 10 of the rece tacle made of pulp board or other suitable thin material is Supported, said door being notched at 11 to fit closely around the corner pieces. Each corner piece consists of two intersecting vertical strips 12 and 13 joined together and secured at their lower ends to the shelf and forming a pair of vertical angularly disposed slots 14. and 15 in which the vertical edges of the sides 16, 17, 18, and 19 are removably inserted and adapted to be held to assist in forming the receptacle. 'Said sides are preferably made out of pulp board or other suitable inexpensive material and terminate below the upper edge of the band .A so that the cover piece 20 can he placed withinthe band and made `to rest upon the upper edges of the corner members 12 and of the side walls of the str ucture, to complete the device. The cover 1s also made out of pulp board or other suitable inexpensive material and is preferably reinforced around its edges by the casing 21 made of metal or other suitable material. One side edge of the cover has pms 22 insertible through the band A to hold one side of the cover in closed position and the opposite side edge of the cover 1s provided with a lock 23 having a look bolt 24: insertible through said band A to hold the other side of the cover.

The skeleton frame .is strong and durable and protects the side walls, floor and cover. It enables the use of pulp board, walls or sides made out of any suitable inexpensive material. W'hen the walls become worn they can be replaced in the skeleton frame thus prolonging the life of the structure and `roviding walls which can be renewed rom time to time. Thus walls can be used made out of less expensive material than ordinary lumber and metal. The corner elements protect the inner edges of the sides.

making the structure substantially as strong inside as outside. The device can be used in the construction of trunks, packing cases, buggy boxes, show-cases and other receptacles. The channel corner elements are of such construction as to reinforce the strength of the skeleton frame very materially and protect the edges of the sides against wearing and becoming broken.

In accordance with the patent statutes I have described the principles of operation of my invention together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to have it understood that the construction shown is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set forth within the scope of the following claim.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is A receptacle, comprising, in combination, a skeleton frame having a pair of upper and lower band elements, said lower band element having an inwardly projecting shelf from all sides and a plurality of substan tially vertical corner elements held within and by said band elements and terminating` at a distance beloW the upper edge of said upper band element, each corner element being provided With a pair of adjacent substantially vertical channels extending from top to bottom, a floor removably supported at all of its edges in said frame upon said shelf, a plurality oi' sides removably inserted in and supported inwardly and out- Wardly along all of their edges from top to bottom by said channels and a cover reinov ably inserted Within said upper band and resting over the upper edges of said channels and upon the upper edges of said sides` to hold said sides inserted in said channels, said cover being detachably secured to said upper band and said iioor projectingr outwardly below the lower edges of said sides to be held thereby and being notched in its corners to receive the channels.

Signed at St. Paul7 in the county of Ranise and State of Minnesota, this 27th day of October, 1919.

BROVVNELL HALVOR LE IG. 

